Posted by Lou Pilder on December 2, 2006, at 16:16:04
In reply to Role NOT strictly administrative, posted by zazenduckie on December 2, 2006, at 15:18:19
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> No not strictly. He has assumed the role of protecting posters by not allowing the posting of sources of drugs that are not permitted by the FDA. He has made the judgement that descriptions of suicide methods or fatal dosages of drugs may not be posted. He has all ready assumed a role as gatekeeper for the posts which are allowed here based on his professional judgement regarding safety and legality.
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> I believe he should limit posters to describing their own experiences rather than offering diagnosis or treatment suggestions for other posters.
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Friends,
It is written above,[...No..protecting posters..limit posters..describeing their own experiance rather than offering diagnosis and treatment suggestions...].
One of the questions surrounding this discussion is if Dr.Hsiung would be giving medical advice if he notated that posts that offer a combination of drugs that could be fatal or harmfull is not endorsed by the medical profession. Another aspect of the discussion is if Dr. Hsiung did take my suggestion and implement it on the forum, would he be establishing a different relationship that he does not want to establish.
If we examine ZZduk's post here, we see that she/he has pointed out that there are things that DR. Hsiung already does on the forum that ZZDuk thinks constitutes that Dr. Hsiung's role on the forum is {not} strictly administartive by the examples above.
Then ZZDuk advocates that posters be limited to posting their own experiances rather than offering to others their diagnosis and/or treatment suggestions.
I find thisIMO to be a logical observation by ZZDuk. And I think that it carries to that if Dr. Hsiung was to notate harmfull examples of drug combinations as being not accepted by the medical community, that that would not IMO be giving medical advice or going outside his role here. I think that if he did implement my suggestion, that some harm could have the potential to be averted and that ZZDuk's suggestion goes along with my thinking about {protecting posters}.
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poster:Lou Pilder
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